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macOS' Finder has had tag support for some time. That's ~10% of desktops in the world (and 1 of the 3 "mainstream" desktop OS out there, counting linux) I'm t
by ElFitz 7y ago
macOS' Finder has had tag support for some time.
That's ~10% of desktops in the world (and 1 of the 3 "mainstream" desktop OS out there, counting linux)
I'm too much of a mess to use them, but they're there.
- einr 7y agoWindows has had file tagging since at least XP. Not a lot of people use them (probably because the UI for it is hard to discover), but I have used stuff like royalty-free photo libraries that have searchable tags. Here's a reference: https://www.howtogeek.com/344543/how-to-tag-any-windows-file-for-easy-organization/ https://www.howtogeek.com/344543/how-to-tag-any-windows-file...
- kwhitefoot 7y agoThe problem is that it can only tag those files that provide data structures for tagging like IPTC and EXIF You can't tag the notes that you write about the holiday you had.
- kwhitefoot 7y agoThe problem is that it can only tag those files that provide data structures for tagging like IPTC and EXIF You can't tag the plain text notes that you write about the holiday you had or the bitmap that you created from one of the jpegs.
- pwinnski 7y agoI'm not familiar with Windows file tagging, but on MacOS this is not true. Any and all files may be tagged, regardless of their type or contents.
- kwhitefoot 7y agoWhat happens if you move or copy a file?
- pwinnski 7y agoMoving and duplicating both preserve the tags: they're metadata. They're part of the reason for those pesky .DS_Store files that proliferate on network shares and non-Mac filesystems, in fact.
- cortesoft 7y agoYeah, they had it back in OS9